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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature
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1. A brief witty poem - often satirical.
Figurative Language
Spondee
Onomatopoeia
Epigram
2. The dictionary meaning of a word.
Scenes
Parable
Verbal Irony
Denotation
3. The point at which a character understands his/her situation as it really is.
Situational Irony
Protagonist
Foot
Recognition
4. The person who 'tells' the story.
Narrator
Stanza
Point of View
Assonance
5. A comparison between two things that share certain similarities.
Synecdoche
3rd Person (Limited)
Analogy
Tone
6. As the conflict(s) develop and the characters attempt to revolve those conflicts - suspense builds.
Rising Action
Metonymy
Meter
Point of View
7. A phrase or expression that has been repeated so often it has lost its significance.
Paradox
Literal Language
Onomatopoeia
Cliche
8. Poetic meters such as trochaic and oactylic that move or fall from a stressed to an unstressed syllable.
Stanza
Epic
Narrator
Falling Meter
9. A character struggles with himself/herself and his/her opposing needs.
Act
Dactyl
Internal Conflict
Denotation
10. The difference between what is expected and what actually happens.
Satire
Legend
Irony
Denouement
11. A customary feature of a literary work - such as the use of a chorus in Greek tragedy - the inclusion of an explicit moral in a fable - or the use of a particular rhyme scheme in a villanelle.
Rising Action
Hyperbole
Convention
Parallelism
12. A tension created as the reader becomes involved in a story and when the author leaves the reader in doubt about what is coming next.
Dialogue
Suspense
Irony
Falling Meter
13. The repetition of similar vowel sounds in a sentence or a line of poetry or prose.
Subplot
Assonance
Reversal
Personification
14. A Greek term first used by Aristotle to describe the emotional cleansing or purification that results after watching a tragedy performed on stage.
Catharsis
Foreshadowing
Connotation
Epiphany
15. The grammatical order of words in a sentence or line of verse or dialogue.
Point of View
Alliteration
Syntax
Onomatopoeia
16. Refers to a writers use of language - including the use of literary techniques - word choice - and sentence structure - that sets one writer apart from another.
Voice
Oxymoron
Legend
Exposition
17. A character who contrsts and parallels the main character in a play or story.
Epigram
Foil
Parable
Climax
18. A humorous moment in a serious drama that temporarily relieves the mounting tension.
Literal Language
Paradox
Comic Relief
Structure
19. The process by which the writer presents and reveals a character.
Dialogue
Complication
Diction
Characterization
20. Broken down acts.
Metaphor
Dialogue
Free Verse
Scenes
21. A figure of speech in which an abstract concept or an absent or imaginary person is directly addressed.
Situational Irony
Apostrophe
Foreshadowing
Rhythm
22. Smaller units of plays that are broken down.
Act
Dactyl
Diction
Aubade
23. A six-line unit of verse constituting a stanza or section of a poem.
Symbolism
Sestet
Free Verse
Ode
24. The voice an actor takes on to tell the story in a particular work.
Persona
Parable
Understatement
Anapest
25. A subsidiary or subordinate or parallel plot in a play or story that coexists with the main plot.
Allusion
Style
Sestina
Subplot
26. A recurring pattern found in a work or works of literature; the pattern is usually representative of something else.
Repetition
Motif
Understatement
Subplot
27. A word that closely resembles the sound that the word is supposed to make.
Subplot
Scenes
Onomatopoeia
Motif
28. A lyrical poem that laments the dead.
Elegy
Exposition
Alliteration
Aphorism
29. The organizational form of a literary work.
Legend
Structure
Understatement
Enjambment
30. A story passed down over generations that is believed to be based on real events and real people.
Subplot
Legend
Elision
Protagonist
31. Spectific characteristics are applied to an entire group of people and are used to 'classify' those people as part of a 'group'.
Diction
Stereotype
Voice
Theme
32. The narrator is outside of the story and is all-knowing or 'God-like' because he/she knows everything that occurs and everything that each character thinks and feels.
3rd Person (Omniscient)
Pyrrhic
Onomatopoeia
Spondee
33. A character struggles against some outside force.
External Conflict
Figurative Language
Suspense
Structure
34. The use of similar structure to express similar or related ideas - words - phrases - sentences - or paragraphs may be organized in a parallel structure.
3rd Person (Limited)
Enjambment
Solioquy
Parallelism
35. The difference between what the character or the reader expects what the character or the reader expects and what actually happens.
Situational Irony
Conceit
Catharsis
Point of View
36. What a story or play is about.
Verbal Irony
Subject
Climax
Sestina
37. A poem that tells a story.
Imagery
Antagonist
Onomatopoeia
Narrative Poem
38. A concrete representation of a sense impression - a feeling - or an idea.
Theme
Image
Octave
Internal Conflict
39. Prose writing about real people - places - and events.
Sestina
Spondee
Nonfiction
Complication
40. The vantage point from which the writer tells the story.
Point of View
Metaphor
Persona
Figurative Language
41. The point after the climax where the action begins to drop off and the events of the plot become clear or are explained in some way.
Complication
Exposition
Fiction
Falling Action
42. A figure of speech in which two completely unlike things are compared.
Stereotype
Foot
Voice
Conceit
43. Refers to how a piece of literature is written rather than to what is actually said.
Stanza
Solioquy
Style
Foreshadowing
44. A technique in which words - phrases - or sounds are repeated for emphasis.
Dialogue
Narrative Poem
Repetition
Foot
45. The feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader.
Situational Irony
Dramatic Irony
Mood
Hyperbole
46. A poem of thirty-nine lines and written in iambic pentameter.
Sestina
Dialogue
Epigram
Rhyme
47. The main character of a literary work.
Narrative Poem
Apostrophe
Falling Meter
Protagonist
48. A symbolic narrative in which the surface details imply a secondary meaning.
Enjambment
Allegory
Parable
Couplet
49. The omission of an unstressed vowel or syllable to preserve the meter of a line of poetry.
Elision
Falling Action
Myth
Act
50. An interruption of a work's chronology to describe or present an incident that occurred prior to the main time frame of a work's action.
Catharsis
Solioquy
Flashback
Scenes
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